Hi: Does anyone know of an alternative to Xpdf or Acrobat for Linux? Xpdf seems really slow and the fonts look bad, and Acrobat under Linux is just not as good as it is under Windows. Best wishes, Matt
At 01:49 PM 1/13/2003 +0900, you wrote:
Hi:
Does anyone know of an alternative to Xpdf or Acrobat for Linux? Xpdf seems really slow and the fonts look bad, and Acrobat under Linux is just not as good as it is under Windows.
ghostscript/view is ok, but slower as well; it does not support the interactive features other than simple hyperlinks (i wonder why this is not implemented) [btw, is acrobat that bad under linux? runs ok here (vmware+suse on win2k) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Monday, January 13, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote: HH> ghostscript/view is ok, but slower as well; it does not support the HH> interactive features other than simple hyperlinks (i wonder why this is not HH> implemented) I asked about it to the GSView programmer some time ago. /pdfmark support for standard hyperlinks in PDFs is just an easy-to-implement plus, which is why it's there. GSView is a *PostScript* viewer, not a PDF one :) -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
At 02:35 PM 1/13/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Monday, January 13, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH> ghostscript/view is ok, but slower as well; it does not support the HH> interactive features other than simple hyperlinks (i wonder why this is not HH> implemented)
I asked about it to the GSView programmer some time ago. /pdfmark support for standard hyperlinks in PDFs is just an easy-to-implement plus, which is why it's there. GSView is a *PostScript* viewer, not a PDF one :)
so, how about a challenge ... Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Monday, January 13, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH> ghostscript/view is ok, but slower as well; it does not support the HH> interactive features other than simple hyperlinks (i wonder why this is not HH> implemented)
I asked about it to the GSView programmer some time ago. /pdfmark support for standard hyperlinks in PDFs is just an easy-to-implement plus, which is why it's there. GSView is a *PostScript* viewer, not a PDF one :)
HH> so, how about a challenge ... It's not something "challenging" to implement --it's a waste of time, in the opinion of the author :) (ok, maybe really not a "waste", but too much time to be spent on something the tool is not intended for). -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
On Monday 13 January 2003 08:30, Hans Hagen wrote:
At 01:49 PM 1/13/2003 +0900, you wrote: [btw, is acrobat that bad under linux? runs ok here (vmware+suse on win2k)
Acrobat Reader under Linux is limited to Version 4. On Windows you get Version 5 which has more bells and whistles. But I use ver. 4 all the time. John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters Rowse Reviews Culleton Editorial Services http://wexfordpress.com
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:59:03PM +0000, John Culleton wrote:
On Monday 13 January 2003 08:30, Hans Hagen wrote:
At 01:49 PM 1/13/2003 +0900, you wrote: [btw, is acrobat that bad under linux? runs ok here (vmware+suse on win2k)
Acrobat Reader under Linux is limited to Version 4. On Windows you get Version 5 which has more bells and whistles. But I use ver. 4 all the time.
contra! I'm using the following on a FreeBSD box under Linux `emulation': acroread-5.06_1 = up-to-date with port If I recall correctly its much faster than 4* Regards, Richard Mahoney -- Richard Mahoney | E-mail: rbm49@ext.canterbury.ac.nz 78 Jeffreys Road | r.mahoney@comnet.net.nz Fendalton | Telephone: 0064-3-351-5831 CHRISTCHURCH 8005 | Cellular: 0064-25-829-986 NEW ZEALAND | http://homepages.comnet.co.nz/~r-mahoney
The main reason I was asking about pdf viewers in the first place is that both Xpdf and Acrobat 5.* (Linux) seem to load pages much more slowly than Acrobat under Windows. Xpdf is just rediculous. And Acrobat is slow with large files like our beloved ConTeXt manuals. I've changed my preference from pdf to ps because GGV is so much better (IMHO) than the available pdf viewers and I hardly ever write interactive documents. Richard Mahoney wrote:
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:59:03PM +0000, John Culleton wrote:
On Monday 13 January 2003 08:30, Hans Hagen wrote:
At 01:49 PM 1/13/2003 +0900, you wrote: [btw, is acrobat that bad under linux? runs ok here (vmware+suse on win2k)
Acrobat Reader under Linux is limited to Version 4. On Windows you get Version 5 which has more bells and whistles. But I use ver. 4 all the time.
contra!
I'm using the following on a FreeBSD box under Linux `emulation':
acroread-5.06_1 = up-to-date with port
If I recall correctly its much faster than 4*
Regards,
Richard Mahoney
At 09:59 PM 1/13/2003 +0000, you wrote:
On Monday 13 January 2003 08:30, Hans Hagen wrote:
At 01:49 PM 1/13/2003 +0900, you wrote: [btw, is acrobat that bad under linux? runs ok here (vmware+suse on win2k)
Acrobat Reader under Linux is limited to Version 4. On Windows you get Version 5 which has more bells and whistles. But I use ver. 4 all the time.
hm, just to make sure i resume my slumbering linux system and saw acrobat 5.05 performing quit well on it; actually, 5.05 was there for linux before it came available for windows Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Does anyone know of an alternative to Xpdf or Acrobat for Linux? Xpdf seems really slow and the fonts look bad, and Acrobat under Linux is just not as good as it is under Windows. Best wishes,
Did you try xpdf 2.x? It's a bit better than older versions, but still far from Acrobat... You can view PDFs with some GhostScript viewers also, but my experiences (on Linux/PPC where exists no Acrobat) told me to use Xpdf until I switched to MacOS X... Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/
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